My dad had some huge ones around 10 years ago, the docs had to push one of them back with a catheter. In addition, his kidneys are full of cysts so they couldn't even break them. However, he started to take a medicine called "Blemaren" and since then he hasn't had any problems with kidney stones.

I feel your pain.... Really.Just went through that myself, for the first ( and hopefully last ) time...7mm stone in right kidney.Had the ultrasound procedure to break it up, but then it took about 2 weeks to get all the fragments out, and had intermittent, some times pretty bad pain..Pain wasn't like anything I experienced before...

Mtt - sorry the stones found you too, and yeah, it's a new kind of pain. Sucks! My first one was like the one you mentioned, went on for a while. This one was mucho quicker! Back on the tennis court the next day (to answer e's question).

Freebird and I pulled out a sweet win Sunday night. We hung tough and stuck it out. They never had a chance.